Unhalfbricking |
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Released: July 3, 1969 Peak: -- US, 12 UK, -- CN, -- AU Click for codes to charts. Sales (in millions): -- US, 0.06 UK Genre: British folk |
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Total Running Time: 38:51 The Players:
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Rating: 4.249 out of 5.00 (average of 20 ratings)
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The MembersFairport Convention featured “the legendary Richard Thompson on guitar” RD alongside vocalists Sandy Denny and Ashley Hutchings, “the John Mayall of UK folk rock,” RD along with bassist Simon Nicol and drummer Martin Lamble, who was tragically killed in an accident before the album’s release. They were managed by Joe Boyd, an American producer. CMReviving British Folk TraditionThe folk group’s third album, Unhalfbricking, was “a transitional album…in which the group shed its closest ties to its American folk-rock influences and started to edge toward a more traditional British folk-slanted sound.” AM Boyd said, “Music from Big Pink by the Band hit London…Fairport effectively said, ‘We want to create something as English as this is American.’” CM Thompson said, “We thought because we were British we should be playing the indigenous music…This was something at which we could excel…We also saw there was a need for the traditional music in this country to be revived.” CMThe Album TitleAs for that album title – it was “a word Denny coined in the course of a word game the band were playing on the road.” RDThe SongsThe album featured two compositions from Sandy Denny. Who Knows Where the Time Goes?, “her best known composition.” RD She first recorded it with her previous band, The Strawbs. Judy Collins would later record the song. The version here features “Thompson’s liquid lines flowing around her wistful melody.” CM The album also featured “the far less celebrated but magnetically brooding Autopsy.” AMThe group tackled three Dylan tunes, including a “goofball French Cajun cover” AM of “If You Gotta Go, Go Now” (here retitled Si Tu Dois Partir), a “magnificent reading” AM of “the unrecorded Percy’s Song about the aftermath of a car accident,” CM and Million Dollar Bash, the still unreleased at the time song from Dylan & the Band’s The Basement Tapes. “The clear signpost to the future was their 11-minute take on the traditional song A Sailor’s Life.” AM “This jaw-dropping epic was recorded in a single take.” RD Denny had been performing it for some time in clubs RD after learning the ancient English ballad from Martin Carthy. CM “Lamble sets the tale with oceanic washes of his cymbals and Denny embodies the young woman standing on the shore and staring at the sea anticipating the dangers and temptations her lover would face.” CM “Then in comes Thompson’s guitar, rolling like the wine dark sea itself. Thompson’s guitar is tailed by Dave Swarback, not yet in the band, whose banshee violin flies around the melody.” CM |
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